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Diabetes in pregnancy: management from preconception to the postnatal period (NG3)
This guideline covers managing diabetes and its complications in women who are planning pregnancy or are already pregnant. It aims to improve the diagnosis of gestational diabetes and help women with diabetes to self-manage their blood glucose levels before and during pregnancy.
This indicator covers the percentage of women who have had gestational diabetes, diagnosed more than 12 months ago, who have had an HbA1c test in the preceding 12 months. It measures outcomes that reflect the quality of care or processes linked by evidence to improved outcomes. This indicator was previously published as NM151
This quality standard covers managing diabetes and its complications in women who are planning a pregnancy or are already pregnant. It includes care for women with pre-existing diabetes before and during pregnancy, and diagnosis and management of gestational diabetes. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS109
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Preconception planning
- Quality statement 2: Joint diabetes and antenatal team care
- Quality statement 3: Continuous glucose monitoring
- Quality statement 4: Postnatal testing and referral
- Quality statement 5: Annual HbA1c tests
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This guideline covers nutrition and weight management in pregnancy for anyone who may become pregnant, is planning to become pregnant or is already pregnant, and nutrition in children up to 5 years. Care of babies and children born preterm or with low birth weight is not covered. The guideline does not give detailed advice on what constitutes a healthy diet.
This guideline covers the routine antenatal care that women and their babies should receive. It aims to ensure that pregnant women are offered regular check-ups, information and support.
When should testing for gestational diabetes take place – in the first or second trimester?
Recommendation ID NG3/2 Question When should testing for gestational diabetes take place – in the first or second trimester? Any...
prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes that can be recommended postnatally for women who have been diagnosed with gestational...
This guideline covers how to identify adults at high risk of type 2 diabetes. It aims to remind practitioners that age is no barrier to being at high risk of, or developing, the condition. It also aims to help them provide those at high risk with an effective and appropriate intensive lifestyle-change programme to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes. The recommendations in this guideline can be used alongside the NHS Health Check programme .
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing hypertension (high blood pressure), including pre-eclampsia, during pregnancy, labour and birth. It also includes advice for women with hypertension who wish to conceive and women who have had a pregnancy complicated by hypertension. It aims to improve care during pregnancy, labour and birth for women and their babies.
Type 2 diabetes prevention: population and community-level interventions (PH35)
This guideline covers preventing type 2 diabetes in adult populations and communities who are at high risk. It aims to promote a healthy diet and physical activity at community and population level, and recommends how to tailor services for people in ethnic communities and other groups who are particularly at risk of type 2 diabetes.
Health app: GDm-Health for people with gestational diabetes (MIB131)
This health app briefing on GDm-Health for people with gestational diabetes has been withdrawn.
What are the barriers that women experience to achieving blood glucose targets?
normal fetal development in the first trimester that women with pre-existing diabetes achieve good blood glucose control both before and...
NICE has developed a medtech innovation briefing (MIB) on FreeStyle Libre for glucose monitoring .
This guideline covers the circumstances for inducing labour, methods of induction, assessment, monitoring, pain relief and managing complications. It aims to improve advice and care for pregnant women who are thinking about or having induction of labour.
Antenatal and postnatal mental health: clinical management and service guidance (CG192)
This guideline covers recognising, assessing and treating mental health problems in women who are planning to have a baby, are pregnant, or have had a baby or been pregnant in the past year. It covers depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, drug- and alcohol-use disorders and severe mental illness (such as psychosis, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia). It promotes early detection and good management of mental health problems to improve women’s quality of life during pregnancy and in the year after giving birth.